Mr. Ratcliffe, who was also a Texas congressman, fought fiercely for Donald Trump during his first term.

The president-elect is to visit Capitol Hill on Wednesday as Republican senators elect a majority leader. His staffing decisions are already depleting the narrow majority the G.O.P. expects in the House.

Known as the Jennings Creek fire, it started Friday and quickly spread. The rugged terrain has made it more difficult for emergency workers to respond.

When asked about whether President-elect Donald Trump would prevent a TikTok ban in the United States, a spokeswoman told The New York Times: “He will deliver.”

The authorities spent weeks searching a Wisconsin lake for the man’s body before discovering that he had moved money into a foreign bank account and had been communicating with a woman in Uzbekistan.

Most bets were on Percival Everett’s “James,” but the judges chose Harvey’s “beautiful, miraculous” novel, which is set aboard a space station.

Ms. Noem, the governor of South Dakota, is a loyalist who has vocally supported Donald J. Trump’s pledges regarding undocumented immigrants.

Ms. Nuzzi, a former writer for New York magazine embroiled in a scandal involving Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had accused her ex-fiancé of harassment and blackmail.

A host of problems that will need more subtle and sophisticated uses of force and coercive diplomacy will confront the new president.

Also, a judge blocked a Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

The Supreme Court is largely to blame for the challenges it may face over the next four years.

An irrepressible force who remained relevant over the course of a seven-decade career, he had a hand in every major development in modern jazz.

The new agreement builds on an earlier announcement in which the German automaker said it would invest up to $5 billion in Rivian, a maker of electric vehicles. The new venture brings them closer.

Investors have been comforted by a clear election result and are anticipating tax cuts and deregulation from a second Trump administration.

The party’s record is clear and strong.

Higher education has been a favorite target of Republicans who believe schools have tilted leftward. Now, colleges and universities are bracing for the Trump administration to take action.

A Virginia-based military contractor that supplied interrogators to the Army at a notorious prison was found liable for the abuse of three men there.

In a U.S. court filing, a former employee says she was trafficked, raped and abused when Mohamed al-Fayed owned Harrods, and that his brother Ali may have evidence of the abuse.

The ruling is probably the first in what could be a long legal fight for conservative Christian groups hoping to amplify public expressions of faith.

Antisemitism is reaching the point of catastrophe, for Jews and for Europe itself.